update on me flying

[Red]

well today is one of the last training flights i have before i solo. next week if the weather cooperates i will be doing a pre solo check flight with robert, the chief flight instructor. once i pass that i will be able to do my solo flight! after that i have a bit of cross country flying and night flying training but i'm almost done!

[mattadams]

That's freakin awesome.

[Red]

yeah it is. you have no idea how long i've been waiting for this to happen lol. if i can remember i'll try taking some pics.

[Warrlord]

Right on Tony, glad to hear you're doing great :thumbsup:

[MMPC]

I'm seriously jealous - always wanted to learn how to fly. Congrats! :)

[Walking Eagle]

Good luck. Flying has always made me nervous.

[Red]

it's fun. flying in a cessna is a lot different from flying in large jet. but it's stil fun as hell :D .

it was a little bit windy friday (ok a lot windy for a 172L) so we cut the flight short. but i did get some questions about my written test answered which is good. so next week if the weather cooperates i'll be doing some more touch and go's. then i want to go out to the practice area and do a review of all maneuvers with my instructor Dan before i fly with Robert. i also have to get my class 3 medical done before i can solo.

[shawns 64 F100]

where are you flying from? I live near centennial and need to be on the lookout :D lol just kidding, congrats!.

[Red]

i fly outta kcos, colorado springs airport.

[shawns 64 F100]

thats gotta be a blats. my step dads cousin passed away last year was the owner of watkins motorcross track, his friend helped him build that place from the ground up. I was out on their ranch a few weeks ago watching the ultra lights take off, I am wanting to try it out now lol

[Red]

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[shawns 64 F100]

good now I know when to run out of that direction if I see you flying above me lmfao!

[mattadams]

Red, heres an interesting new article I found while scanning in all my parents photos during the past year or so. My dad would be "Jim"... and I never even knew he worked at kfc... LOL
http://www.mattstruck.com/oddballs/jamesflightclip.jpg

[Red]

thats really cool!

[Starkman]

it's fun. flying in a cessna is a lot different from flying in large jet. but it's stil fun as hell :D .

it was a little bit windy friday (ok a lot windy for a 172L) so we cut the flight short. but i did get some questions about my written test answered which is good. so next week if the weather cooperates i'll be doing some more touch and go's. then i want to go out to the practice area and do a review of all maneuvers with my instructor Dan before i fly with Robert. i also have to get my class 3 medical done before i can solo.

Those old 172s are just too similar to VW Bugs, about the same size, year, flat 4 engine, but its way cool to get up there and fly! Congrats!

[Warrlord]

Those old 172s are just too similar to VW Bugs, about the same size, year, flat 4 engine, but its way cool to get up there and fly! Congrats!

Hey Tony! It just occured to me.................add some wings & a prop to your bug :laughing3:

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[Red]

got my pre solo written test done today. tomorrow is my review day bfore i got up with Robert. friday i'm getting my class 3 medical done and early next week i'll be going up with robert, and if i'm satisfactory then i'll be solo'ing by the end of next week.

[fox]

good luck on the review and congrats on everything. thats awesome

[Red]

review went good, i'm scheduled to go up with robert on wednesday.

[Red]

starting to get excited now. been reading over everything i've learned in the past 2 months. preflight procedures, getting clearance to go to the east practice area, all the different V speeds, departure procedures, slow flight, approach to landing stall, departure stall, steep turns, ground reference maneuvers, emergency procedures, radio comunications, traffic pattern, setting up for landing, everything. my brain hurts now :drool:

[mattadams]

nice. I'd imagine theres a lot to know but it sounds super exciting.

[Red]

it really is. i can just imagine having no one in the right seat while i'm flying that bird around. cant wait

[Walking Eagle]

it's fun. flying in a cessna is a lot different from flying in large jet. but it's stil fun as hell :D .

I'll have to check with my dad and see if he remembers what he learned to fly in. He just retired from flying back in October. Now he's instructing new recruits for different airlines.

It's cool to follow along in your progress.

[Red]

well i enjoy getting to tell people about it. yes i'm proud, how many 17 year old do you see with a pilots licence? :D

[mattadams]

So once you get pilots license, then what?

[Red]

then i start building my hours up to get my instrument and commercial ratings. in the fall i'll be going to Metro state up there in denver to get my bachelors degree in avation technology.

[Red]

well today was my pre solo check flight with Robert. it went great. next week depending on weather i'll be soloing.

[Red]

got my medical done today, and got my student pilot certificate. i can solo anytime now, depending on weather :thumbsup:

[Walking Eagle]

Congratulations!

[mattadams]

Sweet, lets go to Vegas! :)

[Red]

thanks guys. i cant carry passengers until i have my private certificate. this is just my student cert. i can fly all i want now. lol

[Walking Eagle]

Sweet, lets go to Vegas! :)
Someday in the future I see a RMFTC "road" trip to Vegas by air.

[Red]

the cessna 172L i fly has a cruzing speed of 110 mph. burns about 7.5 gph at 75% power. 38 gallons useable with no reserve. you do the math lol

[mattadams]

screw you, rent us a leer jet damnit!

[Red]

haha i'm not sure the what the rental on one of them is. i know that to rent a raven beta 44 helicopter at a different FBO is around $300 an hour.

[Red]

well i'm finally gonna solo next wednesday. weather looks to be nearly perfect. today was a good day too but at about 300 feet AGL there was a nice wind upset just off the approach end of runway 17R that threw me around pretty good. got to do some extended downwind legs courtesy of an inbound c-130, no flap landings, and a simulated engine failure on downwind. wooo i got this sh*t down now :D

[RevT]

I was flying out of the Pete side for a while, Got 43 hours in a T41C 210 HP enigine. Power on stalls were a biatch, that thing would just climb.

Then I got vertigo and had to stop. Join AOPA, they have a discounted Student rate and they have some great lessons and materials.

Also get Microsoft flight sim 10. It was great. You can practice all you want, for any kind of situation. I think I have the disk around here somewhere...

I wound up having to do 2 cross country solos as they said my first wasnt long enough. I went to trinidad, then to pueblo, and back, then I went to Goodland kansas, some non towered ap NW of there in Colorado, and then back to COS.


Taking "road trips" in a small plane is stupid. Depending on weather, some dayd your ground speed is only 65 MPH.....

Now flying around local aitn bad, like up to aspen or something, or to that highest paved runway in america...Leadville...

RevT

[Red]

Join AOPA, they have a discounted Student rate and they have some great lessons and materials.

Also get Microsoft flight sim 10. It was great. You can practice all you want, for any kind of situation. I think I have the disk around here somewhere...

I wound up having to do 2 cross country solos as they said my first wasnt long enough. I went to trinidad, then to pueblo, and back, then I went to Goodland kansas, some non towered ap NW of there in Colorado, and then back to COS.


Taking "road trips" in a small plane is stupid. Depending on weather, some dayd your ground speed is only 65 MPH.....

Now flying around local aitn bad, like up to aspen or something, or to that highest paved runway in america...Leadville...

RevT

already joined aopa back in november, and i've had flight sim X since it came out. hell i started out with flight sim 2000 back when that come out.

[Red]

sure enough the weather was actually nice today and i got to solo. 4 touch an goes, i didnt do too bad. it was nice having no one in the passenger seat

[MMPC]

Nice - CONGRATS! I'm definitely jealous. But glad to hear everything went well... :)

[Hypoid]

X2!!!!

[Red]

thanks, i should have some pics later today

[Walking Eagle]

Congratulations. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

[shawns 64 F100]

congrats! did you see my shining my billion candlepower spotlight up at you? rofl

[Red]

unless you were along the westside of the springs airport then probably not lol

[shawns 64 F100]

oh naw I figured you might have been up at centennial. but a billion candlepower might be able to reach CS :thumbsup:

[Red]

naw my uncle would be seen up at KAPA, i'm down at KCOS. cant go further than 25 miles from the airport until i get my cross country endorsement

[shawns 64 F100]

I have had this sudden urge to want to try an ultra light. I went out to a friends Ranch out east of watkins where they fly them and watched two take off, it looks like a bunch of fun, the owner of the place has one in his garage, its the smallest one there is that requires a license. I guess he means FCC?, the other ones dont, two seaters. maybe one day I will get a chance to learn and try one out.

[Red]

pics are here. just after i landed and parked.
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/711/image101ec6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Red]

i solo'd in the practice area today. got vectored all over the place shortly after takeoff for departing aircraft on 17L and a king air doin a gps approach to 30. funn stuff. i forgot to take any pics until i had landed and started to taxi back. but i go alone again thursday so maybe i'll remember.

[mattadams]

What a coincidence! I got an email from New York New York in Las Vegas - 20% off room rates! :)

[1 EYE]

How much did it cost 4 you to start with the flying and the ground school?
That airfield is a good 1 to learn at its far enough east they moved it from the south side of I70 to the north side like I think 3 years back.

[Red]

with this place it's all 1 on 1 stuff. I do ground as needed throughout the training with my instructor. ground and flying arent 2 seperate deals, it's all one thing. i think you are talking about a different airport as well, i'm at KCOS, colorado springs municipal airport. so far the total cost is hovering around $6000

[1 EYE]

ok thx. yeah i am the airport I was thinking about is Jeffco its in Walkins

[Red]

yeah i havent been there